{"id":4288,"date":"2015-06-03T16:37:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T15:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2015-06-03T16:37:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T15:37:20","slug":"david-hornsby-in-the-telegraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/06\/03\/david-hornsby-in-the-telegraph\/","title":{"rendered":"David Hornsby in The Telegraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/staff\/hornsby.html\">Dr David Hornsby<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/index.html\">Department of English Language &amp; Linguistics<\/a> has been quoted in an article in the online version of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/\">The Telegraph<\/a><\/em> entitled \u2018Parlez-Vous Prole? Why the Upper Classes Use Mockney Accents\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The article looks at how the upper classes are \u2018poshing down\u2019 their accents to try and fit in with those further down the social ladder and quotes from David\u2019s book, <em>Linguistics: A Complete Introduction<\/em>\u00a0(Hodder and Stoughton, 2014) on the physical features of this. \u2018One mobile feature is the labiodental approximant &#8211; where the lower lip and upper teeth don\u2019t quite come together &#8211; that used to be the preserve of posh types such as &#8220;Woy&#8221; Jenkins,&#8217; explains David, &#8216;but since the seventies has spread down the social scale to include the likes of &#8220;Woy&#8221; Hodgson and Jonathan &#8220;Woss&#8221;.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>To read the article please visit <em>The Telegraph<\/em> website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/prince-william\/11638361\/Parlez-vous-prole-Why-the-upper-classes-use-mockney-accents.html\">www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/prince-william\/11638361\/Parlez-vous-prole-Why-the-upper-classes-use-mockney-accents.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr David Hornsby from the Department of English Language &amp; Linguistics has been quoted in an article in the online version of The Telegraph entitled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/06\/03\/david-hornsby-in-the-telegraph\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":4289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135857,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4292,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4288\/revisions\/4292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}